Episode 142 - Phytosaurs

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Education, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Take a walk along the waterways of the Late Triassic, and you could easily think it was a world full of crocodiles! But in fact, those are not crocs, but phytosaurs, a group of predatory reptiles that represent not only one of the oldest groups of carnivorous reptiles to achieve a near-global distribution, but also one of evolution's most famous cases of convergent evolution. So, what features did phytosaurs share with crocs? Where did they differ? And just how croc-like were their lifestyles? Listen in and find out! In the news: dinosaur belly buttons, tiny frogs, snake venom, and giant dwarf crocs. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:45Main discussion, Part 1: 00:41:00Main discussion, Part 2: 01:11:30Patron question: 01:47:00 IT’S CROC MONTH! Check out our Croc Month activities on our social media, Discord, and Patreon! We recently made a guest appearance on Third Pod From the Sun, where we discussed the K-Pg mass extinction! https://thirdpodfromthesun.com/2022/06/10/extinctions-dinosaurs-a-big-rock-andclimate-change/ Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Or make a one-time donation via PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/4c68u4hp Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Join the Common Descent Discord server! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev Follow and Support us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduwPodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 You can email us at commondescentpodcast(at)gmail.comOr send us physical mail at:The Common Descent Podcast1735 W State of Franklin Rd. Ste 5 #165Johnson City, TN 37604 The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, David.
0:20.2	Hello, Will.
0:21.4	And hello, listeners.
0:22.8	Welcome to episode 142 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:27.7	This episode, we will be discussing Phytosaurus.
0:31.8	Round one.
0:33.1	Phytosaurs.
0:34.6	One of my friends did ask what we were talking about next, and I told them phytosaurs, and
0:39.6	they were like phytosaurus?
0:41.5	Is this from the 90s?
0:43.6	Phytosaurs is an extremely fitting topic for the month of June.
0:47.4	Yes, because it is crock month.
0:49.3	Croc month.
0:50.1	Phytosaurs aren't really crocs, but I'm sure we'll get into that.
0:52.5	Yes.
0:53.1	So phytosaurs are an interesting group popularity-wise.
0:57.7	Like, to me, phytosaurs are one of the most iconic fossil groups.
1:03.1	And to many paleontologists, they are very well known.
1:06.0	But they are publicly very underrepresented.
1:09.6	Right.
1:10.1	Like, I do not see phytosaur as mentioned or portrayed or displayed in public popular media,
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